25 Off-The-Radar European Cities

25 Cities You Need To Mention On Your Next Date

Traveling is fun, but having traveled can be even more fun. Because while sitting on beaches and gaping at paintings and pretending to appreciate cathedrals is great, sometimes the real fun happens when the party is dwindling, it’s you, the DJ, and the girl you’ve been eyeing all night -- and only one of you just got back from hiking through Cappadocia.

(“Oh, yeah, it was just beautiful -- but it’s also the culture, right? I’ve always been interested in…” etc. It just writes itself, doesn’t it?)

It’s not that we’re trying to be shallow. It’s just that, in a world of $2000 airline tickets, Marquis de Sade-designed economy seating and pathological TSA agents, we like to get our money’s worth. This is somehow diminished when we get back from Prague and everyone tells us that we should have been there in the ‘90s.

Travel, like everything else, is a life choice that will face scrutiny. Maybe it’s sad, or maybe we secretly love this sort of frantic mining for social distinction and that’s why the world is the way it is. In either case, we have -- as always -- done the legwork for you, and found 25 (25!) European travel destinations (ranked from the mildly curious to the stray dog-intensive) that will not have people picturing you riding a Segway down the Champ de Mars.